Specifications include, but are not limited to: The senior managing underwriter, co-senior manager and/or co-managers chosen to provide investment banking services will assist the Authority, its staff and its financial advisor(s) in the development of the proposed plan(s) of finance. Along these lines, the duties of the participants chosen will be assigned by the Authority during the development and implementation of the plan of finance. Firms responding to this RFQ should be prepared to provide the services described below: Senior Manager: book runner; leader of the underwriting syndicate; pricing coordinator; responsible for the marketing of the issue; structuring the financing (in consultation with the Authority’s financial advisor); determining credit enhancement alternatives; compliance with the disclosure standards; investor liaison; assist with rating materials and presentations, and all other conventional roles for senior manager. Co-Senior Manager: same as senior manager, except that co-senior manager would not “run the books”. The co-senior manager is expected to be integral to the transaction, attending the same meetings that the senior manager attends and participating in all aspects of the financing as deemed necessary by the Authority. Co-Manager: assist in marketing the issue and providing discrete “niches” in the marketing of the bonds.